University of Tokyo

Spontaneous, random baby movements aid development of their sensorimotor system, according to new research led by the University of Tokyo. Detailed motion capture of newborns and infants was combined with a musculoskeletal computer model,…

The Symposium on Data-Driven Future Society 2022 & mdx Tutorial, organized by the Data Platform Initiative of the UTokyo Future Society Initiative, was held online on Tuesday, December 20, 2022.The symposium was held for the fourth…

A new way to study quarks, one of the building blocks of the protons and neutrons that make up atomic nuclei, is proposed. This has never been done before and doing so would help answer many fundamental questions in physics. In…

Researchers at the University of Tokyo have used artificial DNA to target and kill cancer cells in a completely new way. The method was effective in lab tests against human cervical cancer- and breast cancer-derived cells, and against…

Climate change could overexpose rare underwater marimo algae balls to sunlight, killing them off according to a new study at the University of Tokyo. Marimo are living fluffy balls of green algae. The world’s largest marimo can be found…

Volcanic eruptions are dangerous and difficult to predict. A team at the University of Tokyo has found that the ratio of atoms in specific gases released from volcanic fumaroles (gaps in the Earth’s surface) can provide an indicator of…

The 28th East Asia Joint Symposium on Biomedical Research (EAJS) was held in an online format from October 26-28, 2022, hosted by Shanghai Institute for Advanced Immunochemical Studies, ShanghaiTech University (SIAIS, China), under the…

A sakura tree-planting ceremony commemorating solidarity with Ukraine was held at the University of Tokyo’s Koishikawa Botanical Garden on Nov. 24, 2022. The event, organized as an initiative of the Czech Republic presidency of the…

Early diagnosis of chronic kidney disease (CKD) is key to managing progression of the disease. A new technique analyzing urine extracellular vesicles (uEVs) — cell-derived nanoscale spherical structures involved in multiple biological…

Hironori “Rick” Kobayashi was the head of a company based in the U.S. state of Indiana when he first met Kenny Song, an up-and-coming American artificial intelligence engineer working for Google Brain, a deep learning research team at the…